Hankuh is currently reading Many Thoughts of Many Minds (Quotations).
I’m 51 years old, male, from the United States. I’ve been a DailyLit member since May 24, 2009. My reading interests include Fiction and Non-fiction.
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The Black Monk - Must be something lost in translation.
This is one of those stories that appeals to some meaning, but I guess I haven't a clue because I lack the intellectual tools. On a positive, the story was easy to read, and it kept my attention. As to what was actually transpiring, it was hard to say or write in a review.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #14: Books You Hate
Ishiguro is definitely a favorite of mine too. I did read The Unconsoled; but my feelings are ambivalent; I've read earlier Ishiguro work such as A Pale View of Hills, a great work in my opinion, as well as An Artist of the Floating World; both of these works were much more superior than The Unconsoled. It seems Ishiguro was experiencing with his vision of the novel, and I think his reading of Kafka played a major influence in that work. I agree it does tend to drag. In hindsight, it needed to be condensed. His work centers on memory and interpretation, but I feel with The Unconsoled he really made it a stretch, perhaps because the main character really doesn't illicit empathy.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #14: Books You Hate
Easy, 100 Years of Solitude--despise it. I've attempted to read it 4 times; finally, I just threw it in the box for folks at the thrift store. I think it's arguably the most overrated work in literature along with Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom. Oddly, I liked Love in the Time of Cholera--more lucid.
Wikipedia Tour: Masterpieces of Western Art - Little Too Much--Sometimes
Although I know each painting consisted of a detailed Wikipedia article, I think it would have been better if these articles had been condensed with a great emphasis on the actual painting details rather than the museum politics surrounding them. Still, some great work, and I did learn something.